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Why Choose Us?

How will the coaching approach enhance my leadership and management style?

Coaching can create a more inclusive environment and can be critical in enhancing leadership development.
In uncertain economic environments or organizational restructurings, this approach improves a professional’s ability to move forward and adapt to change.
It’s an action-oriented strategy that moves people forward from where they are to where they want to go. Outcomes and Return On Investment (ROI) are built into the process.

Why is the coaching approach so relevant to our challenging times?

Organizations, teams, and individuals are facing enormous challenges (layoffs, uncertainty, recruitment, retention, etc.). Coaching facilitates the process of change and adjustment.
Financial restraint and technological change has significantly altered the work process; the coaching approach can effectively help.
Financial restraint and technological change have significantly altered work process, thus there is a great need to support employee development.
The coaching approach might effectively help in bridging the gap between the generations.

How can organizations benefit from coaching?

Leaders using a coaching approach support the development of a learning organization.
Encourages individuals to engage in thoughtful leadership practices and to become skilled at reflective learning.
Increases a self accountability approach.
Uses effective questioning that brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
The ability to coach is a core competency that organizations, small or large, need in recruitment strategies and performance management.
Integrated into daily practice, it can assist in problem-solving and working through critical issues.
Allows leaders to manage major change more effectively.

Why Choose the Coaching Approach? Research says...

A study1 conducted in 1997 concluded that follow-up coaching combined with a supervisor training program increased productivity by an astounding 88%. The same study concluded that training alone increased productivity by 22.4%. Olivero, Bane & Kopelmann; Public Personnel Management, Washington; Winter 1997. ISSN: 00910260)
Organizations who rate high on communication skills are up to 43% more productive than other companies. Hay Group
Employees who don’t receive ongoing communication and coaching from team leaders are 35% more likely to look for a new job within a year of starting. American Society of Training & Development
Operating income improved 19.2% over a 12-month period and net income improved by 13.7% for professional services firms that ranked highest in employee engagement and communication. Towers Watson 2011 Global Survey

Why Choose Dr. Pat Comley as your facilitator?

Pat brings expertise with her…

2008 International Coaching Federation’s prestigious Prism Award for Business Excellence through Leadership Coaching (sole coach with a large corporation).
Consulting and training experience, both locally and internationally, at executive levels in corporate, higher learning, and not-for-profit institutions.
Doctorate in Applied Psychology, Counselling Education, a professionally trained Adler Coach, and member of the International Coaching Federation.
Behaviorial and organizational psychology expertise teaching, for 16 years, upper level university courses in personal growth and stress management.
Experience in leading a variety of workshops including: Leading Across Cultures, Leading with Emotional Intelligence, Team Dynamics, Stress Management and Compassion Fatigue.

Pat is the right choice because she…

Connects dots strategically: ability to take complex and abstract concepts and communicate them in a clear and understandable way.
Provides accountability supported by measurable outcomes.
Has ability to motivate people through meaning making: focus on purpose, values, intentions, moving from where you are to where you want to go.
Has the breadth of experience which provides a wide variety of services to a very diverse clientele.

What’s the research on ROI (Return on Investment)?

Sean Weafer, states “training alone improved effectiveness by 28% but training together with coaching improved effectiveness by 88%”. (Weafer, Sean. (2001). The business coaching revolution. Dublin: Blackhall. p.ix)
Research on the Canadian National Index of Employee Engagement conducted by the Gallop Organization has determined that “24% of employees are actively engaged, 60% are not engaged, while a further 16% are actively disengaged. Leaders using a Coaching Approach provide an opportunity to impact the 60% of employees who are simply not engaged, shifting their level of engagement and hence, performance potential”. (Executive Knowledge Works (2020). Executive Coaching: Best Practices and Trends in Corporate America, p. 1:2)
James Flaherty (1999), states, “leading with a coaching approach is a way of working with people that leaves them more competent and more fulfilled so that they are more able to contribute to their organizations and find meaning in what they are doing”. (Flaherty, James. (1999). Coaching: Evoking the Excellence in Others. Boston: Butterwork-Heinemann. P3)